Rodgers WEATHER

won't run

Mike Rodgers, president of
the Castlegar District Tea-
chers’ Association, says he
won't run for another one-
year term.

“I'm worn down from what
the government has done to
us,” said Rodgers recently in
an interview. “I'm worn
down. Most of the executive
is.
“We're kind of like the
Vancouver Canucks (hockey
team). We've been beaten so
many times, we can't get up.”

The past school year was
Rodgers’ second consecutive
term as CDTA president.

Although CDTA  exe-
cutives’ terms officially run
from July to July, newly
elected officers will take up
their duties following elec-
tions scheduled for May 30.

Vice-president Lisa Ped-
rini says she will allow her
name to stand for the pres-

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SPECIALS

this week Alfred Waldron, a long-
time resident of the Arrow
Lakes district, passed away
May 15 in Castlegar and Dis-
triet Hospital, at the age of
70.

Mr. Waldron, a former
resident of Renata, was in-
strumental in helping to es-
tablish the first school bus
service from Renata to
Castlegar, and was foreman

SOUTHERN of the crew that put through
GROWER CJ the first road from Syringa
nee Creek to Broadwater. As
well he was an active par-
ticipant in the construction of

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He managed the Arrow
Lake Boat Club Marina for
some time after leaving Ren-
ata, and later served as a
clean-up foreman for B.C.
Hydro during the construc-
tion of the dam.

He and his wife later
moved to Vancouver Island
and from there to Dent Is-
land, accessible only by boat
or sea plane from Campbell
River, where they spent
some seven years, eventually
retiring to Castlegar in 1981.

Mr. Waldron is survived
by his wife, Ella, daughter,

EEE EE 2 &

Castlegar man dies

Norma and step-daughter,
Margaret, all of Castlegar;
brother and sister-in-law,
Otto and Jessie of Van-
couver; and brother and
sister-in-law, Eric and
Marion of Windsor, Ontario.

Funeral service was held
at Robson Community
Church Saturday with Rev.
Ted. Bristow officiating.

Funeral arrangements
were conducted by Valley
Funeral Home of Nakusp
with interment in the Robson
Cemetery.

Steelworkers
accept two
year contract .

TRAIL (CP) — The biggest
local of United Steelworkers
of American members _em-
ployed by Cominco Ltd. in
Trail and Kimberley has
voted 56 per cent in favor of
accepting a mediator’s two
year contract proposal con-
taining provisions for up to
s cost-of-living adjust
ments.

“Considering there was no
recommendation (from the
bargaining committee) it's

not bad at all,” Ken Geor.
getti, president of the steel.
workers’ Local 480 in Trail,
said of the result of the vote
by 3,153 employees.

Cominco office and tech
nical workers, members of
Local 9705, were to vote on
the proposal later today.

Cominco, which dropped
its original proposal for a
two-year wage freeze, has
yet to accept the mediators’
Proposal.

Hospital union
workers settle

Hospital Employees’ Union
members in 14 long-term
care facilities across the
province, including Kiro
Manor in Trail, have voted to
accept a new contract that

two per cent effective April
1, 1984, two per cent ef.
fective April 1, 1985 and five
per cent effective Nov. 1,
1985. In addition, the agree.
ment includes an eight per

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THEATRE ENERGY . . . A unique production, Calling
the Play, was put on at Kinnaird Junior Secondary
School Thursday by Theatre Energy of Nelson. Play

on the perils of

CosNews Photo by Chery! Colderbank

deol d to ed

is
drug and alcohol use.

THEATRE

continued trom front pege

Brian begins to realize he can't go on like this
forever.

T’ve got to talk to my parents about this thing,” he
says. “It's really bugging me. Like my dad says, ‘T've got
to start making some choices.’ "

Then Alex is about to take some valium belonging to
Dee's mother.

“What do these things do to you,” he asks.

Brian warns, “Hey man, I heard mixing pills and
booze is pretty dangerous stuff.”

Alex passes out.

“It's the pills and the booze. Call the ambulance,”
Brian shouts.

“No ambulance,” Dee screams, refusing to accept
any responsibility. “Get him out of here.”

The play ends with this last scene, and the students
proceed to discuss the situation with the actors.

“It's alright ... I enjoyed it... I liked the acting . . .
good humor . . were some of the reactions of the
students. The students also agreed that the play was
realistic, and a handful raised their hands when asked if
they had been in a situation like, being in a car with a
drunk driver.

“It's seary,” one student said.

On a critical note, one student said the play might

have been better had one of the actors played the part of
a parent, to see what the consequences of their actions
might be.
KJSS vice-principal Russ Rilcof, said he thought the
production was “outstanding.”
“The concept is grea
net di

|. “The student
pa ion an is lent. It was very
well thought out and well put together. The actors really
had it down pat.”

He added that the students seemed to be “whole-
heartedly involved.” It was one of the best games or
experiences for drug and alcohol nature at the school,
Rilcoff said he has ever seen.

Prior to this program the school had a drug and
alcohol decision-making unit presented to the students,
which included guest speakers and activities in which the
students participated.

“This was a great substitute” for the program, Rilcof
said.

Asked whether drug and alcohol use is a problem at
KJSS, Rileof replied that the situation is fairly well under
control.

“There are always kids (who) are involved, but we're
fairly pleased with the way things are going at our
school,” he said.

Stage manager Howard Bearham said overall the
company is happy with the presentation.

POLICY.

continued from front pege
Smecher admits the possibility of an applicant falsifying the
form does exist.

“I suppose, like anything else, it depends on the
person's honesty,” she said.

“I don't know what could happen (if an applicant lied), or
if we could go through the courts to check. Beyond taking
the person's word for it, I don't know what we could do.”

But George Anutooshkin, head of the committee which
drafted the policy, said the policy is still useful. He says if an
applicant previously found guilty of a criminal offence lies
about it on the signed policy statement, the board will be
able to legally fire that person.

Anutooshkin said the policy was drafted after legal
advice and comments from the Castlegar District Teachers’
Association and district non-teaching employees.

The policy says if a person to be offered employment
indicates he or she has a criminal conviction, the details will
be examined by the school's superintendent, secretary

Porn, economy
church concerns

treasurer or a screening committee. Smecher says this
committee would consist of school trustees.

The policy says the following will be taken into account:

@ the nature of the crime;

@ the time passed since the last conviction;

e any rehabilitative measures undertaken by the
applicant;

© the applicant's record since the last conviction;

© the degree of involvement with children in the
position applied for.

Smecher said the board hasn't determined the specifics
of these points; for example, how much time would be
deemed acceptable to have lapsed since an applicant's “last
conviction.”

id i would be d, she said,
adding, “there's got to be some limit on how long and how
often a person pays for a crime.

“Unless he's sentenced for life, he doesn't have to pay
for life.”

Thrums man

will give them comparable
rates of pay with other health
care workers.

The settlement, reached
after 60 hours of direct
negotiations between HEU
and the employer's repre-
sentative, ends a three-year-
old collective bargaining dis
pute that culminated in a six-
week strike at a number of
long-term care homes.

The new contract runs for
four years from April 1, 1982
to March 31, 1986. It provides
for new wage increases of

cent increase already paid to
employees on Aug. 1, 1982

The entire package is sub-
ject to review by Compen
sation Stabilization Commis
sioner Ed Peck.

‘Local
woman
dies

Shirley Jean Tehir of
Castlegar passed away May
16 at the age of 58. She is

survived by one son, Robert
and daughter-in-law Helen
Court MEWS 2° ‘wo grandchildren of
Castlegar, one brother and
———— eight sisters, ail of New
Linda Glendinning was Brunswick

fined $350 after pleading
guilty to impaired driving,
this week in Castlegar pro
vineial court.

Funeral services will be
held at Castle Funeral Home
in St. John, N.B. later in the
week.

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) —
Pornography and the econ
ony are two of the major
concerns of church members,
about 600 members of the
B.C. conference of the United
Church of Canada were told
at their recent annual
meeting.

Rev. Dal McCrindle, out
going president of the con
ference, said that “many
women in the church are

alarmed at the growth of
pornography under the guise
of erotica.” The church must
voice disapproval and re
jection of such material, he
said

McCrindle also said the
economy is a major concern
as unemployment continues
to rise “and more and more of
our sisters and brothers are
unable to provide for them
selves and their families.”

Joy Ramsden Bridge

Ten pairs of duplicate
bridge players competed at
the May 13 meeting of the
Joy Ramsden Bridge Club.

The average was 54, with
the following winners: Bill

Gorkoff and Joy Ramsden
with 64, Rita Perrier and
Heather Pottle with 57, Bob
Kirby and Donna Wiwchar
with 56%, and Hugh Auld
and Myrna Baulne with 55"/:

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John H. Kabatoff of
Thrums passed away in Koot
enay Lake District Hospital
in Nelson Friday, May 17 at
the age of 78

He was born May 7, 1907 in
Canora, Sask. where he
grew up. He moved to B.C. in
1923, living in Vancouver
until moving to Thrums in
1925. He married Annie
Kalesnikoff at Thrums in
1928.

During his lifetime, Mr.
Kabatoff worked on the con
struction of the Brilliant dam
and in local sawmills. He re.
tired from sawmill work in
1960 and from that time until
1970 he operated a truck.
garden farm and supplied

FOR THE

An article in Wednesday's
Castlegar News stated that
the Castlegar school board
will be asked to consider
eliminating a part-time
French itinerant teacher and
a part-time French helping
teacher to help pay for a new
director of instruction.

In fact, the two teachers
are one and the same.
As well it was reported

dies

plants to Mitchell Supply for
many years.

He is survived by his wife
Annie of Thrums; two sons,
John of Nelson and George of
Thrums; two daughters,
Winnie Kasahoff of Lang.
ham, Sask. and Marie Pere-
versoff of Castlegar; 14
grandchildren; 11 great
grandchildren; one brother,
Bill of Thrums.

Funeral service will begin
at 7 p.m. Monday at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel
and will continue at 10 a.m.
Tuesday at the Tarrys Hall
with burial at 2 p.m. in the
Brilliant Cemetery. Funeral
arrangements under the dir-
ection of Castlegar Funeral
Chapel

RECORD

that trustee Gorden Turner
made two motions which
were in fact, made by trustee
Kay Johnson.

The motions called for the
board to send a letter to
Education Minister Jack
Heinrich Protesting the firing
of the Vancouver school
board and to send a letter of
support to Vancouver school
board chairman Pauline
Weinstein.

BRIEFLY
MINERS KILLED

TOKYO (AP) — Most shops closed in the
northern mining town of Yubari on Saturday as
families went into mourning for 62 miners killed deep
underground in a coal shaft rent by an explosion.

The disaster took place Friday at the ishi
Minami Oh Yubari mine in central Hokkaido, 900
kilometres north of Tokyo.

The blast occurred almost one kilometre
underground during a shift change when the shafts
were crowded miners. Besides the dead, 24 miners
were injured, 10 seriously, company and union officials
said. About 250 other miners underground at the time
escaped unhurt.

BOAT DISASTER

FREETOWN (REUTER) — At least 100 people
were feared drowned Saturday when a boat capsized
off the Sierra Leone coast, a survivor said.

Thirty-six other people were injured when a
wooden wharf where about 200 onlookers had
gathered collapsed, witnesses said.

Mohamed Sesay, one of six survivors from the
boat, told Reuters it capsized amid rough seas and
strong winds while travelling from Bullom, in the Port
Loko district across Freetown Bay, to the Sierra
Leone capital.

MINERS STRIKE

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — About 9,000 black
gold miners held an illegal strike on Saturday over the
dismissal of two miners accused by the owners of
threatening fellow workers, officials said.

Security men at the Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine
near Carltonville, west of Johannesburg, fired tear
gas Friday night to disperse picketers who tried to
prevent other miners from going to work, a mine
spokesman said. No injuries were reported.

Only about 300 of the night shift of 2,000 reported
for work, and the strike spread Saturday to include
9,000 of the 11,000 miners on the day shift, said mine
managing director Gordon Mosenthal.

PORN BANNED

PEKING (AP) — The official China Daily
reported Saturday that foreign books, magazines and
tapes will be imported into China this year, but
anti-socialist and pornographic works are banned.

The English-language newspaper quoted Chen
Weijiang, president of the China National Publications
Import and Export Corp., as saying: “Publications
that contain libel against our socialist system and
pornography are strictly forbidden.”

Chen said the state has given his company the
equivalent of $74 million Canadian for foreign imports
this year, compared with $38 million in 1984. Last
year, the corporation catalogued 30,000 foreign books,
but this year it will expand the list to 70,000.

POPE CRITICAL

MECHELEN, BELGIUM (AP) — The Second
Vatican Council, which modernized church tices,
has sparked occasional “disarray and division” among
the world’s 800 million Roman Catholics, Pope John
Paul told a pi ite meeting with bishops on Saturday.

“We must find a cure to the spiritual weakness of
Christians,” the Pope said in a statement. “The
Christian tissue of society must be remade.”

The pontiff's remarks came on his 65th birthday
and were contained in a lengthy address which he
handed to Belgium's 17 bishops at a 45-minute private
meeting in Mechelen, a Dutch-speaking town just
north of Brussels.

TRADE MOVE

OTTAWA (CP) — The Nicaraguan government is
in the process of moving its North American trade
office from Miami to Toronto, the External Affairs
Department said Saturday

A spokesman said formal notice of the plan has
been received by the department and arrangements
are being made through normal Immigration Depart.
ment channels.

The move follows the announcement by United
States President Ronald Reagan of an American trade
boycott of the Central American country.

DEATH PENALTY

NEW DELHI (AP) Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi's government introduced a bill in parliament
Saturday that would impose the death penalty for
terrorist acts resulting in injury or death. The bill
would also give security forces broad powers to fight
terrorism during the next two years.

The opposition, warning that the legislation is
open to abuse, sought time to discuss the broad
emergency powers that authorities would have to
abridge civil liberties.

Gandhi's government acted a week after a series
of bomb blasts in New Delhi and elsewhere in
northern India that killed 85 people. Officials have
blamed those blasts on Sikh extremists.

VEHICLE RECALL

TORONTO (CP) — Mazda Canada Ine. announced
a wholesale recall Friday of more than 40,000 vehicles
ranging in model years from 1977 to 1983 that were
operating in areas where heavy use of road salt might
have corroded the idler arm assemblies.

Beginning May 20, the following vehicles will be

recalled: 1977-80 GLC; 1979-83 GLC Station Wagon;
1979-82 626; 1978 929 Station Wagon and 1977-83
RX-7s.

Owners in Eastern Canada will be asked by mail
to bring their cars to Mazda dealerships where the
idler arm will be replaced free. The procedure is
expected to take 30 minutes.

West of Ontario, owners will be invited to take
their cars to a Mazda dealership for a free inspection
and, if necessary, a free replacement.

BURNABY (CP) — The
will

pr 8
deduct money for Expo 86
tickets from government
workers’ paycheques but
won't approve a voluntary

employed action. centres,
says the B.C. Government
Employees Union.

“The government has ab-
solutely refused to co-operate
in y in order to make
it easier for our members to
help the unemployed and the
needy,” the union said in a
news release Friday.

“On the other hand they
have informed all govern-
ment employees that they
are introducing a payroll
deduction system for those
who wish to buy Expo 86 tic-
kets at a reduced cost.

“The double standard of
this government is appar-
ent,” said the release. “There
is lots of co-operation if it has
anything to do with Expo 86
or any other favorite mega-
project, but if it has anything
to do with helping the unfor-
tunate among us, the door is
slammed in your-face.”

The food banks and action
centres have been suffering
financially since funding was
recently cut off by the federal
Progressive Conservative
government.

“Many of our members
wish to help keep this vital
support system going
through voulntary contribu-
tions deducted at source in
the same manner as many
other items,” said union
president Norm Richards.

Provincial Secretary Jim
Chabot, minister responsible
for government workers, was

PLAYING IT SAFE . . . City of Cas:

tlegar worker Phil Koochin puts in a crosswalk near
Columbia Avenue and 10th Street Friday, as part of Traffic Safety Week.

Cosnews Photo

unavailable for comment.

Fonyo
takes
break

MANNING PARK (CP) —
Steve Fonyo took a break
from the road this weekend,
but the one-legged runner
didn’t get a lot of rest Friday
night.

The 19-year-old resident of
Vérnon, who stopped in this
resort area for a two-day
break in his cross-Canada run
to raise money for cancer
research, joined about 20
others at Windy Joe's pub
Friday for a rollicking party.

Fonyo, who has been on
the road for 14 months, had
planned to go for a canoe trip
Saturday, but was still in bed
at noon, said Penny Bohmer,
an

CLARK SAYS

Policy paper held up.

OTTAWA (CP) — Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister Joe
Clark says the Liberals and
New Democrats are trying to
kill a parliamentary com-
mittee he wants to establish
to review a new government
discussion paper on foreign
policy.

The opposition parties say
they won't participate in the
committee unless the gov
ernment isi

would be necessary to set up keep most of the really
the committee. potent technological advan-
Clark has indicated the ces to .” he said.
government won't decide “I suppose any country

whether to accept the Amer-
iean decision to participate in
Star Wars research for ano-
ther three to four months.
But the opposition parties
want a specific commitment
that the government will
wait for the committee's rec-

on Star Wars research and a
new trading agreement with
the United States until after
the committee holds public
hearings and makes recom
mendations.

“They're not talking about
boycott,” Clark said Satur.
day in an interview with

at the Manning Park Lodge.

“We had a pretty good
night over there,” said Boh
mer, 23, who said the party
broke up in the early morn:
ing hours of Saturday.

“We were dancing most of
the night. He (Fonyo) is a
pretty good dancer. He
danced with everybody. He
had MTV (the rock video tel.
evision station) on for a
while. But we got tired of
that and switched to tapes
later.”

Fonyo will resume his
Journey for Lives Monday,
221 kilometres east of Van.
couver. A big celebration is
planned for B.C. Place Sta
dium May 27 and Fonyo is
expected to reach the end of
his run in Victoria two days
later.

Meantime, the author of a
book being written about
Fonyo says it will be “a qual.
ity product,” but written and
priced to appeal to every.
body

“It's not the ultimate book
on the Journey for Lives,”
said Keith Morgan, who adds
it will be available two weeks
after the run ends.

Morgan, crime reporter for
a Vancouver newspaper, des
eribed the book as a soft
cover, magazine-sized prod
uet similar to the souvenior
editions that have followed
recent historical events such
as the wedding of Prince
Charles. He said it would be
about 100 pages long, with
more than half containing
photographs.

News.

“They're talking about kil
ling a committee. There
would not be a committee if
they chose not to be part of
it.”

The consent of all three
parties in the Commons

Clark said one factor in the
decision will be recommenda-
tions from Arthur Kroeger, a
senior public servant as-
signed to go to Washington
to determine the implications
of the invitation to par.
ticipate in research into the
space-based weapons defence
system

Canada wants to know
whether it would be involved
in the more important re
search projects, he said

“In the past, the Ameri.
cans naturally have tended to

would. But if that’s going to
be the rule... then obviously
we'll be less interested.”

Meanwhile, Clark said he
had about 40 minutes to for-
mulate the Canadian res-
ponse to the recent an-
nouncement of a United
States trade embargo against
Nicaragua.

Canada has decided not to
impose economic sanctions of
its own against the Central
American country.

“Two weeks ago the gov
ernment of Canada had to
take a decision on Nicar-
agua,” Clark said.

“Were we going to respond
to the American embargo
and what were we going to
do. I had to make that de.
cision after talking to the
prime minister in 40 min
utes.”

Professor says gov't
‘human values’

has no

By DAPHNE BRAMHAM

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Social Credit government is
devoid of leadership and
human values and has no
sense of democracy, a uni.
versity professor told dele
gates to the New Democratic
Party convention Saturday

Mike Manley-Casimir, a
member of the education
faculty at Simon Fraser Uni
versity, said the government
has “no sense of the chal
lenges facing us.”

“It has no sense of a just
and compassionate society
No sense of the meaning of
democracy. In short it has no
sense.”

Manly-Casimir said that
through its policies, the gov
ernment has sacrificed peo
ple's hopes and children’s fu
tures “on the altars of (Pre
mier) Bill Bennett's idola
tress monuments to his
greater glory as he strives to
outbuild his father (former
Premier W.A.C. Bennett).

Speaking on a panel on

education, he called the Soc
red government vengeful and
authoritarian for firing school
trustees in Vancouver and
Cowichan when they failed to
pass budgets that compiled
with government-set guide
lines.

“Educationally, we see a
wasteland — our institutions
undermined, democratically
elected trustees trampled
under the jackboot of an
inept minister, programs cut,
teachers demoralized and
laid off, children confused,
communities ripped apart in
the ensuing polarization.”

He said the “laissez faire
capitalism” of the Socreds “is
facism with a vaguely human
face.”

POSITION SUPPORTED

NDP leader Bob Skelly got
support for the position he
has taken on the firing of the
trustees. Delegates recom
mended approval of a resol.
ution to amend the School
Act to allow the education
minister to fire trustee only if

the board is bankrupt or two
boards merge

The delegates also recom.
mended approval of a general
policy statement that says
public education must be
available to every citizen and
liberal in nature so that
students are taught to reason
so they will be flexible
enough to deal with the
changing world

Also recommended were a
royal commission into ed.
ucation; an immediate assess
ment of the damage to the
educational system by the
Socreds; and an immediate
return to the level of funds
provided school boards in
1982 before the restraint
program began

During the debate there
were several angry exchan
ges. Carol Pickup, chairman
of the Greater Victoria school
board, said she was appalled
the delegates would go along
with any resolution allowing
the government to fire a
board.

B.C., Ottawa
sign new
agreement

By CHERYL CALDERBANK
Staff Writer

British Columbia and the federal governments will
spend $525 million jointly over the next five years to develop
key sectors of the provincial economy.

The Economic and Regional Development Agreement
(ERDA) is the largest agreement of this kind ever signed
with B.C. for regional i
West MP Bob Brisco said in an interview from his Ottawa
office.

A total of $300 million of the money is earmarked for
forestry, Brisco said, which means $60 million annually will
be spent on forestry for the next five years.

In addition, the governments also plan to spend another
$50 million under the Industrial and Regional
Plan to boost regional economies through industrial
development. These funds are to go to small business,
Brisco, said.

The ERDA agreement was actually signed in

November, however, the amount of the agreement was not

d until Wed: ft said Brisco, a

member of the B.C. federal caucus, which he said “worked
very hard on” the agreement.

Brisco said forestry was the caucus’ first Priority and
that is why a “major portion will be put into the major
resource sector that needs it most and will generate the
most employment opportunity.”

He said much of the forestry funds will be put into
silviculture.

The combined $575 million total of the two agreements
falls below British Columbia's original request for a $660
million pact. Yet it is higher than the federal government's
original offer of $500 million.

Provincial industry minister Bob McClelland at a news
conference in Victoria noted that the previous federal-
provincial agreement was for $280 million. Still, British
Columbia is getting less per capita from Ottawa than many
other provinces, he said.

Yet Brisco said that’s not true. He pointed out that
Manitoba received additional funding though not under
ERDA. It was through a transfer payment. And Quebec got
an additional $400 million, but that money was allotted
under “old money” by the Liberal government.

McClelland, at the news conference, said the agreement
would literally create “thousands of jobs over the life of the
agreement.”

Brisco also said that Kootenay West must get its fair
share of the funds.

He said he is hoping to be able to get together with area
MLAs and mayors, as well as representatives of labor and
management sectors of the forestry industry to discuss
strategies as “to how best maintain funding expenditures to
ensure that Kootenay West gets its fair piece of the action.”

“We should not take for granted that we will get what
we are entitled to. I'm not about to take that risk,” he said.

Brisco said he didn’t think the money would be divided
into constituencies but thought the province will be divided
into four forestry regions and the money divided amongst

those sections: Vancouver Island, Coastal, north of Prince’

George and the Intérior. 2

Other areas in the agreement that have been identified
are: $30 million for tourism, $40 million for agriculture, $10
million for mining, $20 million on science and technology and
$125 million for industrial development.

Brisco said the agreement will be signed by federal and
provincial forest ministers within a few days.

He added that there are a number of projects in the
province which have already been approved pending
funding.

The Doukhobor Historical Society, had hoped to receive
a grant from the federal/provincial Tourism Industry
Subsidiary Agreement (TIDSA) and #number of other job
creation programs to help offset the cost of projects.

But Brisco said the tourism fund was known under the
acronym of TIDSA under the old federal/provincial
agreement which was signed in about 1979.

He said it remains to be seen whether the Historical
Society can receive funding in the new tourism section of
ERDA.

“It depends on what terms of reference will be for the
tourism component,” he said.

Historical Society president Jack Polonicoff said the
Society will be looking at applying under the program.

Public invited

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to conference

Exhibits, illustrating vi.
able economic development
projects, are what will bring
the upeoming regional con
ference on economic develop
ment into focus.

“Sharing approaches that
work” is the theme of the
day-long conference planned
for June 1 at the Castlegar
Campus of Selkirk College

Conference organizers in
vite public participation and
input to foster round table
discussions of ways and
means of encouraging re
gional economic develop
ment.

“Organizations, clubs, soci
eties and enterprising indi
viduals are invited to join
ranks in discussing viable al
ternatives that will bolster
the Kootenay/Boundary re.
gion's traditional resource
based-economy” says a col
lege release.

Organizers of the economic
development conference in
clude Selkirk College's Con
tinuing Education Office
along with volunteers from
the Social Planning and Re
view Council of B.C
(SPARC), Institute of Cul
tural Affairs (ICA) and local
organizations such as Nel
son's Unemployment Action

Committee and the Nelson
Women's Centre.

Displays will be exhibited
at the conference by organ.
izations that have evolved
successful economic | ven
tures.

According to volunteer or-
ganizer Ilona Staples of ICA,
exhibits are expected from
such diverse ventures as
Emma's Jambrosia, current
ly enjoying enormous success
in the marketing of their
unique melange; the Youth
Training Option in Grand
Forks which is helping
youngsters in the transition
from school to workforce; the
Slocan Lake Museum Soci.
ety, which, by its profes
sional approach, manages to
bring sophisticated cultural
diversity to the upper Slocan
Lake region; the Creston
Wildlife Interpretation Cen
tre, currently undergoing the
transition from public to pri
vate funding in an attempt to
remain operational and other
projects that serve to en.
hance their communities in
addition to their oftentimes
economic success.

Registration applications
are available at Selkirk Col.
lege. Continuing Education
Office and may be completed
upon attendance